Short Spine Chilling Poems

red-haired poltergeist
in a spine-chilling boneyard
a blood-spattered cape

10.15.17

Third place
"Halloween Senryu"
hosted by Laura Loo...

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Ice pops and cold brew in a gust,
twice shy but always I’m bitten;
Price is right for the richest high,
spice swirled in leaves a gal smitten;

Cheat code for a frosty blizzard,
treat black ice until it’s melting;
Heat isn’t just born in a fire,
beat that fever with spine-chilling....

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Drowning in the knowledge
That change is inevitable
Afraid that your decision might backfire

What can be more spine-chilling?
Is the fact  
That not making the change will 
Lead you to a point of frustration
Discontentment 

In the end to stagnate is also a choice
It also has a consequence

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Throwing the wreath 
across the river
after the canal rapture ?
Does it look eerie ?
Yes it was spine-chilling
to see. The band went on
to play:
‘nearer to island’.

There was a pause.
Then a question.
The black space was done for.
The hatching. A plot ?
Upstaging a snowstorm
falling in someone’s lap
with white roses.

In cracked dry mud
an unclenched fist
deconstructs a map.


Satish Verma...

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By Kerinth Campbell

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Nerve shattering
Spine chilling
Teeth chattering
Feet unwilling.

High pitched
Ghoulish delight
Screams!
More screams
In the foreboding night

Low and ominous
Rising moans
Screams!
Inhuman baleful groans

Cackling, evil
Gleeful pleasure
Groans
Moans
Screams 
Without measure

To a crescendo
Lowering to a suspense
Rising
Rising
Rising
Building up again

Ahhhhhhhhh!...

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